Baboom:The Villain by celsyum

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made by celsyum for LD25 (COMPO)
You are big creature and you hate cities.
Your target: to travel given distance as fast as possible.
Controls: Mouse left button
- click to start sliding
- click and hold to open your mouth

Eat Humans to get small extra speed and eat GOATS to get extra time for opened mouth.
Use shop and spend your money to upgrade.

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall 3.15 276
Audio 3.15 134
Fun 3.26 169
Graphics 2.83 404
Humor 3.05 192
Innovation 2.52 523
Mood 2.89 309
Theme 3.51 226

Feedback

h.attila
17. Dec 2012 路 09:07 UTC
The game is very simplistic, you don't have many actions available. The presentation is nice.
Meep
17. Dec 2012 路 09:09 UTC
Nice game! I think there's a bug where if you continue holding the mouse button down when your mouth-bar empties, you can keep your mouth open up until you release the mouse button (Can keep it open the entire run).
chribbe1
17. Dec 2012 路 09:11 UTC
Love the small people and the blood when eating them! Would be nice with some more actions. Nice!
PerilousPete
17. Dec 2012 路 09:22 UTC
I get the same bug as Meep (in fact I didn't realise this wasn't intentional until now), but I really enjoyed this game D:
馃帳 celsyum
17. Dec 2012 路 11:12 UTC
thank you for your feedback. Fixed bug.
aeveis
17. Dec 2012 路 11:18 UTC
got to the end, I like how it was a continuous journey. Maybe if there was changing landscape the further you got? Couldn't get the oil and boost last upgrades before I won; the price was too high.
AnnaGavaldaKedavra
17. Dec 2012 路 11:18 UTC
Quite fun. There is just something with the moving background : my eyes burn. :)
kroltan
17. Dec 2012 路 11:18 UTC
Awesome game! Make an Android port and sell it for 0.99 and you'll become rich! But of course add more actions.
Starspell
17. Dec 2012 路 11:25 UTC
Nice idea for a game. However buying upgrades doesn't really help you past the first buy - you still move about the same speed and for the same length of time. Keeping your mouth open doesn't give you a very big boost to your speed, not enough to really make picking up anything worth it.

Some of the people and goats spawn could never be picked up which was confusing and occasionally everything would some rendering for a time.

I did however like the monster's animation and the buildings. Shame that people didn't fall out of buildings when they got damaged.
Luis Anton
17. Dec 2012 路 15:28 UTC
I still wonder what kind of big creature I am :D
馃帳 celsyum
17. Dec 2012 路 19:11 UTC
you are Baboom :)
Pixelbear
17. Dec 2012 路 21:08 UTC
Pahaha. That was great! Simple premise, executed excellently! Also, that creature looks hilarious. :P
pereubu
17. Dec 2012 路 21:23 UTC
that's a neat game, the second half of the game is a bit long because of the expensive upgrades i think, but i still really enjoyed it a lot D:
chrismwaite
17. Dec 2012 路 21:23 UTC
Nice little game. Like the shop mechanics. Would be nice to have a bit more variety to the environment and some more upgrades in the shop (perhaps lasers and the like)
Cosine
17. Dec 2012 路 21:24 UTC
This game has a certain charm to it. While it's very simple in scope, and not particularly polished to any degree, it actually feels like a game you could find in an arcade. The combination of simplistic graphics and cheerful music really helps sell the mood.

The gameplay needs the most refining of anything. Upgrades had no visible effect, I would recommend making the initial stats of the monster very weak. I would also recommend either removing humans/goats from the other lane of the road, or let the player move from lane to lane.

Your graphics were pretty grating to look at. Humans were small, dark figures that blended pretty easily into the road, meaning I had to strain my eyes to see them at high speeds. I would also recommend making more than one kind of building, although I realize this was probably not a priority in the 48 hours you had.

Overall a very rough game, yet also quite a bit of fun.
Cat Burton
18. Dec 2012 路 11:02 UTC
A simple game, but fun to play. The audio is lovely! Well done :)
ddionisio
18. Dec 2012 路 11:02 UTC
Pretty cool monster, that pretty much caught my attention. Because it's such a unique looking monster, I played it for a little while :) The mouth mechanic helped keep each run from being too repetitive.
ReveLorenfield
18. Dec 2012 路 11:07 UTC
Your villain is so cute <3
I had fun eating everything on my way
rujo
18. Dec 2012 路 11:16 UTC
sick :) and fun to play, needs just some graphics fixes
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 13:01 UTC
Fun game with a simple yet fun concept. I enjoyed it.
Husky
19. Dec 2012 路 14:12 UTC
Fun, like the cute monster and music :)
strong99
19. Dec 2012 路 20:07 UTC
Very nice and polished game. Not much to do but enough to keep you occupied trying to get the best out of it :) Ran smoothly too!
Colapsydo
22. Dec 2012 路 10:22 UTC
The game is really fun and the monster is just great.
Maybe level 3 for options are a bit expensive.
I like the free run, but it misses some kind of goal.
CireNeikual
29. Dec 2012 路 04:06 UTC
Fun game, pretty addictive! Perhaps a bit too luck-based though.
DDRKirby(ISQ)
29. Dec 2012 路 08:59 UTC
So random...fun, in a really weird way. o_o Feels like my eyes are hurting just watching everything fly by o_o

Nice job on the music, is that FamiTracker?
馃帳 celsyum
29. Dec 2012 路 17:49 UTC
no , its SiON
garygreen
29. Dec 2012 路 19:08 UTC
That was a nice bit of mayhem - I wasn't sure how to control the length of the monster's sliding though.
Pitoum
30. Dec 2012 路 10:38 UTC
Very cool mechanics! I finished it :)
fishbrain
30. Dec 2012 路 13:58 UTC
lol... cool, although I had a bit of trouble grasping the controls.